VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 461 522
Rank change year-on-year -106 +61 +85
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 98 91 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.28% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 0.90% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 71 41
10th Percentile £413 £494 £325
25th Percentile £482 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £556
90th Percentile £715 £688 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -13.50% +14.29% +15.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,651 10,147 12,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.38% 30.82% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,121 6,299 7,676
10th Percentile £350 £280 £313
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £703 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,218 758 929
10th Percentile £17.73 £17.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.38 £21.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -24.15%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.00 £75.00 £76.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -113 83 £536 -9.49% 10
UK excluding London -114 71 £519 -13.50% 8
Work from Home -22 45 £586 +6.45% 3
South East -66 26 £610 -6.15% 2
North of England -74 15 £485 -3.00% 4
Midlands -40 11 £425 +16.44%
West Midlands -43 11 £425 +16.44%
London -65 11 £625 +13.64% 2
North West -42 10 £484 +10.63% 3
East of England -19 9 £507 -6.11% 1
South West -72 9 £553 -4.74% 1
Yorkshire -48 5 £519 +3.80%
Scotland - 2 £298 -

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.06%) Apache
1 3 (3.06%) CloudStack
1 3 (3.06%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.02%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.51%) Azure
2 18 (18.37%) AWS
3 8 (8.16%) GitHub
4 7 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.10%) GCP
5 5 (5.10%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.06%) IaaS
7 3 (3.06%) Nutanix
7 3 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.04%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.04%) Datadog
8 2 (2.04%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.02%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (27.55%) VSAN
2 12 (12.24%) Firewall
3 10 (10.20%) DNS
3 10 (10.20%) NAS
3 10 (10.20%) SAN
4 7 (7.14%) WAN
5 6 (6.12%) LAN
6 5 (5.10%) DHCP
6 5 (5.10%) SD-WAN
7 4 (4.08%) BGP
7 4 (4.08%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (4.08%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (4.08%) IPsec
7 4 (4.08%) MPLS
7 4 (4.08%) OSPF
7 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.08%) VPN
8 3 (3.06%) BIG-IP
8 3 (3.06%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (3.06%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.06%) JIRA
3 2 (2.04%) Git
3 2 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.02%) GitLab
General
1 25 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.04%) Finance
5 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (30.61%) VMware Engineer
2 20 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (14.29%) Senior
4 11 (11.22%) Architect
5 10 (10.20%) Consultant
5 10 (10.20%) VMware Consultant
6 9 (9.18%) VMware Specialist
6 9 (9.18%) Wintel Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) PowerShell Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Python Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Administrator
9 6 (6.12%) JavaScript Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Lead
9 6 (6.12%) Network Architect
10 5 (5.10%) Lead Architect
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.04%) Flash
2 2 (2.04%) OpenGL
2 2 (2.04%) Qt
2 2 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (1.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.45%) Data Centre
2 14 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (14.29%) Replication
3 12 (12.24%) Private Cloud
4 11 (11.22%) Public Cloud
5 10 (10.20%) Clustering
6 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
6 5 (5.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.06%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (3.06%) EMC VNX
8 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.04%) CUDA
10 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 1 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (27.55%) Windows
2 22 (22.45%) Windows Server
3 13 (13.27%) Linux
4 5 (5.10%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (5.10%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.47%) Disaster Recovery
1 23 (23.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (22.45%) High Availability
3 21 (21.43%) Network Virtualisation
3 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (17.35%) Capacity Planning
4 17 (17.35%) Project Delivery
5 15 (15.31%) Migration
6 13 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (11.22%) ITIL
9 10 (10.20%) Agile
9 10 (10.20%) CI/CD
10 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (8.16%) DevOps
11 8 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (8.16%) User Experience
12 7 (7.14%) Business Continuity
12 7 (7.14%) Data Centre Operations
12 7 (7.14%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (52.04%) PowerShell
2 45 (45.92%) Python
3 26 (26.53%) JavaScript
4 14 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 66 (67.35%) Security Cleared
2 49 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 27 (27.55%) VCAP
4 22 (22.45%) DV Cleared
5 20 (20.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (18.37%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (15.31%) MCSE
8 13 (13.27%) CCNP
9 11 (11.22%) MCSA
10 10 (10.20%) Azure Certification
11 7 (7.14%) AWS Certification
11 7 (7.14%) Degree
11 7 (7.14%) RHCA
12 6 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (5.10%) CCNA
14 3 (3.06%) CCA
14 3 (3.06%) CCIE
14 3 (3.06%) Citrix Certification
14 3 (3.06%) NCDA
14 3 (3.06%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.08%) NCSC
2 3 (3.06%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 61 (62.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (46.94%) VMware ESXi
3 35 (35.71%) vSphere
4 33 (33.67%) VMware NSX
5 16 (16.33%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (12.24%) Hyper-V
7 9 (9.18%) Active Directory
8 7 (7.14%) Docker
9 4 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (3.06%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (3.06%) SRDF
11 2 (2.04%) KVM
11 2 (2.04%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (2.04%) NFS
11 2 (2.04%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 41 (41.84%) vCenter Server
2 34 (34.69%) Ansible
3 29 (29.59%) vRealize
4 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
4 13 (13.27%) Terraform
5 10 (10.20%) PowerCLI
6 8 (8.16%) vMotion
7 5 (5.10%) Grafana
7 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
7 5 (5.10%) SCCM
8 4 (4.08%) Podman
9 3 (3.06%) Check_MK
9 3 (3.06%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (3.06%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.06%) Puppet
9 3 (3.06%) SCOM
9 3 (3.06%) SnapMirror
10 2 (2.04%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (2.04%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 98 (100.00%) VMware
2 26 (26.53%) Microsoft
3 23 (23.47%) Cisco
4 12 (12.24%) Broadcom
5 8 (8.16%) SolarWinds
6 7 (7.14%) 3PAR
7 5 (5.10%) NetApp
7 5 (5.10%) Veeam
8 4 (4.08%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.08%) Google
8 4 (4.08%) Nimble Storage
8 4 (4.08%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.06%) Brocade
9 3 (3.06%) Dell
9 3 (3.06%) EMC
9 3 (3.06%) F5
9 3 (3.06%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.06%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.06%) Remedy
9 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow